School: Coratillon
- Location:
- Corratillan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael O' Beirn
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- (continued from previous page)his hand to it, it opened.They went into the chapel and there was a girl kneeling at the rails. The boy told the priest that is was a girl that was dead a short while, and that when she was alive she let a particle of Holy Communion fall from her mouth, and until she received Holy Communion again from a priest, she would not get to Heaven. So the priest gave her Holy Communion and the girl disappeared. The boy and the priest went home, and then the boy got sick, and lived only about a week. When the boy's parents heard it they were very much frightened but the priest told them not to fear, because the child was surely in Heaven.
- Collector
- Eileen B. Mc Govern
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonlegee, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Gregory Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tonlegee, Co. Cavan
